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David Fang, provided by Published 10:18 am PDT, Friday, April 26, 2019 Slack, the workplace chat platform geared toward millennials, just filed to go public with a predicted valuation of about $17 billion. The company's co-founder, Stewart Butterfield, who also co-founded Flickr, talked to Business Insider in 2015. Butterfield explained the values that are important in his career, as well as the advice he'd give to his 20-year-old self. Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Slack and Flickr, has dual degrees in philosophy and expected to pursue a career as a professor. Then he changed courses completely. Butterfield stopped by Business Insider recently and explained his thoughts on what values are important in his career. He also passed along advice to his twenty-year-old self. EDITOR'S NOTE: This video was originally published on July 13, 2015. Join the conversation about this story » See Also: Taylor Swift just dropped a new single. Here's … [Read more...] about Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Slack and Flickr, says 2 beliefs have brought him the greatest success in life

Caterina Fake, the serial entrepreneur (Flickr, Hunch), investor, and startup adviser, can add “podcast host” to her long list of professional accomplishments. Today, Fake launches Should This Exist, an original audio series that aims to explore technology’s impact on humanity. Fake is partnering with WaitWhat, the media company behind Reid Hoffman’s popular Masters of Scale podcast, and news platform Quartz. Fake recently spoke with Fast Company about her reasons for lobbing a new entry into a noisy field, the difference between online communities and social media, and holding tech companies to a higher standard. Edited excerpts follow: Fast Company: Given the number of terrific podcasts already out there, why should Should This Exist exist? Caterina Fake: The conversation around technology has changed in the past two or three years. It was probably partially triggered by the [2016] election, which had unexpected results for many people and also [showed] the … [Read more...] about Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake finds her voice with a new podcast

With Flickr’s return to life under SmugMug after a long slumber within the corporate bosom of Yahoo, the venerable image-sharing service wants to highlight its relationship with photographs, photographers, and photo-loving visitors. It’s using its picks for the top 25 photos of 2018 to emphasize that. What Flickr didn’t do is simply come up with a list of the most-viewed or most-favorited images on the site. Many of the photos it’s spotlighting were posted to Flickr but also received high traffic and interest elsewhere through social media, news outlets, or other means. Indeed, some of them had millions of views around the web, but only a few faves or comments on Flickr itself. The selection process combined a number of metrics. Matthew Roth, Flickr’s product manager for the web, explains that the team ran the billions of photos posted in 2018 through an algorithm that examined a number of signals. That raw data was the starting point that let team … [Read more...] about Flickr’s top photos of 2018 aren’t just about clicks and algorithms

The only way to make people angrier than promising something and not delivering it is to offer something for free and then take it away. It’s true for babies. And it’s true for the users of internet services, too. On November 1, Flickr’s new owner, SmugMug, announced changes to the photo-sharing service, which it acquired from Yahoo in April after years of neglect. Flickr Pro users, currently paying $50 a year, will receive a number of new features and upgrades, some immediately–like unlimited storage–and some coming between November and early 2019. (SmugMug raised the Flickr Pro subscription price shortly after acquisition; existing Pro subscribers pay the higher rate only on renewal.) But the company also said users who don’t pay will lose the 1TB of storage that Yahoo ill-advisedly put in place in 2013. “At the time I’m sure they looked like fantastic decisions at Yahoo,” says SmugMug’s CEO, Don MacAskill, referencing the … [Read more...] about Flickr’s new free offering is better than amazing: It’s sustainable

Rachel Premack, provided by Published 12:32 pm CDT, Sunday, September 30, 2018 Renat Latyshev/Strelka Institute/Flickr The 15 minutes before your job interview are crucial. You need to stay calm, get focused, and be confident. Remember to show up no earlier than 10 minutes before the interview, and to check a mirror before you walk into the office. can be harrowing. Job seekers are never quite sure what to do with that time — but experts suggest that you look in a mirror, take deep breaths, and do whatever else it takes to get focused and stay calm. "Those 15 minutes are your opportunity to get yourself into the right frame of mind, and set your energy and focus on who you'll be meeting with, what you want them to remember about you, and what you want to ask them," says Deborah Shane, a career author, speaker, and media and marketing consultant. Here are 11 things you should do in the 15 minutes before a job interview: Stay calm Dmitry Smirnov/Strelka … [Read more...] about 11 things you should do in the 15 minutes before a job interview